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CHARRINGTON, Brig Harold Vincent Spencer (1886-1965)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Charrington

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: CHARRINGTON, Brig Harold Vincent Spencer (1886-1965)

Date(s): Created 1914-1965

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box or 0.01 cubic metres

Name of creator(s): Charrington | Harold Vincent Spencer | 1886-1965 | Brigadier

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1886; 2nd Lt 12 (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers, 1905; Lt, 1907; employed with Egyptian Army, 1913-1914; Capt, 1914; served World War One, France and Belgium, 1914-1918; acting Maj, 1916, 1917-1919; Brevet Maj, 1919; Maj, 1923; General Staff Officer, Grade 3, War Office, 1923; Commander, Company of Gentleman Cadets, Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and General Staff Officer, Grade 2, 1923-1925; General Staff Officer, Grade 2, Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, and temporary Lt Col, 1925-1926; Lt Col, 1927; Commander, 12 (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers, 1927-1931; [Commander 6 Midland Cavalry Bde (Territorial Army), 1931-1932]; retired 1932; director of Charringtons Brewery, 1932; member of His Majesty's Bodyguard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, 1935; recalled to service, and served in World War Two, 1939-1945; General Staff Officer, Grade 1, Aldershot Command, [1939-1940]; Commander 1 Armoured Bde, Middle East and Greece, 1940-1941; Commander Fighting Vehicles Section, General Headquarters, Cairo, Egypt, May-Jul 1941; invalided back to England, Jul 1941; Commander of an Armoured Div, 1941-1943; Honorary Brig, 1943; retired, 1943; Personal Assistant to FM Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1945[-1946]; died 1965.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to service with the 12 (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers during World War One, notably relating the advance into Flanders, the first Battle of Ypres, and the advance to, and fighting around, Amiens, 1914-1935; the writing and publication of Charrington's book Where Cavalry Stands Today (Hugh Rees, London, 1927), 1927-1928; papers from a report by Charrington on the operations of the British Army in Eritrea and Abyssinia during 1941; correspondence, narratives, photographs and maps relating to Charrington's command of 1 Armoured Bde during operations in Greece and Crete, 1941, 1941-1962.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in sections as above. Later accessions have been grouped together.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Placed in the Centre by the family in 1968, with two further accessions in 1974 and 1981.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: DSO, MC

Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 1998


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armoured warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Army personnel | Armed forces | State security
Cavalry | Armed forces | State security
Maps | Visual materials
Photographs | Visual materials
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Charrington | Harold Vincent Spencer | 1886-1965 | Brigadier

Corporate names
British Army

Places
Amiens | France | Western Europe | Europe
Crete | Greece | Western Europe | Europe
Eritrea | East Africa
Ethiopia | East Africa
Flanders | Western Europe | Europe
Ypres | Belgium | Western Europe | Europe
Abyssinia x Ethiopia